US Celebs Join Call to Save Bulgarian Mountain

US singer, songwriter and director Jared Leto and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, which supports initiatives for sustainable development, have called on their many followers on Twitter to join the campaign of WWF-Bulgaria to save the UNESCO-designated Pirin National Park in Bulgaria.

Over 106,000 people have already signed a global petition that urges Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borissov, to stop a new management plan for the natural park, which, according to WWF, would allow for extensive construction and logging.

"Join us and @World_Wildlife to help save the centuries-old forests of Bulgaria's Pirin National Park from ski zone expansion and logging," the DiCaprio Foundation tweeted on Tuesday.

Join us and @World_Wildlife to help save the centuries-old forests of Bulgaria's Pirin National Park from ski zone expansion and logging. https://t.co/Y0SYPh6uJr

— DiCaprio Foundation (@dicapriofdn) December 18, 2017

Directly tagging Borissov's profile, Leto asked Bulgaria's leader to "protect Pirin National Park from disastrous commercial logging + skiing infrastructure".

The tweets have gone viral in Bulgaria, where environmental groups are actively opposing a government plan to allow construction of a second gondola cabin lift in Bansko, Bulgaria's largest skiing resort, by the company managing the resort, Yulen.

Join me + @World_Wildlife to help save the centuries-old forests of Pirin National Park from ski zone expansion and logging. RT + help spread the word. https://t.co/A9hx4HSQWL

— JARED LETO (@JaredLeto) December 15, 2017

Activists have also warned that the new management plan of the park, which is a UNESCO-designated natural heritage site, would allow for...